[winGRASS] Re: problem starting grass

Richard Greenwood rich at greenwoodmap.com
Wed Oct 13 11:39:34 EDT 2004 

I just googled "cygwinb19.dll" and found this suggestion:

    "Just copy the current new cygwin1.dll to cygwinb19.dll
     they are compatible, it should work."

Rich

Martin Perra wrote:
> I am using a new install of Cygwin, I installed everything EXCEPT tcl/tk
> libraries.  I downloaded the proper ones from the grass5.7 directory, and
> installed using provided .sh file.
> 
> 
> I ran which -a wish, and came up with one in /usr/local/bin.  Date is
> 3/28/2002, size is 1209kb file is wish8.3.exe
> 
> I'll explain a little more background on the problem.  At one point I had
> everything working properly.  I then installed vis5d+ and that worked, but
> when I went back to grass, I got the error message i mentioned before.
> After trying a few things, I ended up deleteating Cygwin completly, and
> reinstalling, including grass (I have tried all versions 5, 5.3, 5.7) and
> get the same problem.  I have tried doing full reinstalls afew times,
> including deleting all cygwin Windows registry entries with no luck.
> 
> I don't recall if when I installed vis5d I had to get cygwinb19 from
> somwhere to make it work, It was awhile ago.  I think I may have though,
> because it was requesting it, and I would have put it in c:\cygwin\bin.
> That may be what caused the problem, but like I said, I have since deleted
> all traces of it.
> 
> I am wondering if it may be becuase of my home path? After install, it is
> set to a network share, which is my windows home directory.  Could this be
> causing a problem?  How might I fix it?  I am fairly new to Unix-like
> sytems.
> 
> I have just tried copying mysql.exe and the dll to /usr/local/bin but that
> didn't help.
> 
> When installed cygwin, I got this message the first time I ran it.
> 
>  Your group is currently \"mkgroup\".  This indicates that
>   the /etc/group (and possibly /etc/passwd) files should be rebuilt.
>   See the man pages for mkpasswd and mkgroup then, for example, run
>   mkpasswd -l [-d] > /etc/passwd
>   mkgroup  -l [-d] > /etc/group
>   Note that the -d switch is necessary for domain users.
> 
> 
> I'm not sure aht it means though.
> 
> I hope that's enough information to work an answer out of!
> 
> Thanks,
> Martin
> 
> 
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> Have just installed grass57 and the latest cygwin release from bineary
> installs.
> Get it started but after displaying the first maps or when opening most
> dialogs boxes, I get a PG.DLL is missing message from several tools =
> (e.g.
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> From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=C1d=E1m_Csaba?= <csaba at adamiroda.hu>
> To: wingrass at grass.itc.it
> Subject: Re: [winGRASS] pg.dll not found in W2K Svp4
> 
> Hi Juergen,
> 
> 
>>...I get a PG.DLL is missing message ...
> 
> 
> I have no pure "pg.dll" in the Cygwin directory.
> There are pg_blah-blah.dlls in the /bin/ dir, but
> they belong to the PostgreSQL.
> And there is a "pq.dll" in the /bin/ (PQ.DLL).
> That's all.
> 
> Regards,
> Csaba
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 01:21:11 +0200
> From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gp at familiehaase.de>
> Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere
> To: wingrass at grass.itc.it
> Subject: [winGRASS] include winGRASS with Cygwin distribution?
> 
> Hello,
> 
> whoever is maintaing the Cygwin port of winGRASS, isn't there interest
> to include winGRASS as a package with the Cygwin net distribution, so
> people could use setup.exe to install wniGRASS including dependencies?
> 
> We're also right now discussing at the Cygwin maintainer list about the
> inclusion PostGIS as an addon to the POstgreSQL package, however I don't
> now if that belongs here.
> 
> 
> Gerrit
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> Message: 4
> Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2004 18:31:24 -0600
> From: Richard Greenwood <rich at greenwoodmap.com>
> To: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gp at familiehaase.de>
> CC: mperra at petrelrob.com, wingrass at grass.itc.it
> Subject: Re: [winGRASS] problem starting grass
> 
> Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> 
>>Martin Perra wrote:
>>
>>
>>>when I type "grass57" I get a popup titled "wish8.3.exe - unable to
>>>locate
>>>component"  The message says "This application failed to start because
>>>cygwinb19.dll was not found.  Re-installing the application may fix this
>>>problem"
>>>
>>>Any ideas?
>>
>>
>>Get a new TCL package, yours must be at least 5 years old.
>>
>>Gerrit
> 
> 
> No, don't update Tcl/Tk, Grass requires a modified version of Tcl/Tk
> found at:
>    http://grass.itc.it/grass57/binary/mswindows_cygwin
> download:
>    xtcltk-8.3.4-CYGWIN.tar.gz
> You can use Cygwin setup to un-install any existing Cygwin version of
> Tcl/Tk, or you can use some other method to hide it. You can issue the
> command 'which wish' to see which version Grass is finding, or 'which -a
> wish' to see all versions of wish which are installed. (wish is a
> component of Tcl/Tk).
> 
> I have no idea what's with the "cygwinb19.dll", I don't have one on my
> system.
> 
> Rich
> 
> 
> --
> Richard Greenwood
> www.greenwoodmap.com
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> Message: 5
> Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 03:17:04 +0200
> From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gp at familiehaase.de>
> Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere
> To: Richard Greenwood <rich at greenwoodmap.com>
> CC: mperra at petrelrob.com, wingrass at grass.itc.it
> Subject: Re: [winGRASS] problem starting grass
> 
> Richard Greenwood wrote:
> 
> 
>>Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Martin Perra wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>when I type "grass57" I get a popup titled "wish8.3.exe - unable to
>>>>locate
>>>>component"  The message says "This application failed to start because
>>>>cygwinb19.dll was not found.  Re-installing the application may fix this
>>>>problem"
>>>>
>>>>Any ideas?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Get a new TCL package, yours must be at least 5 years old.
>>>
>>>Gerrit
>>
>>
>>No, don't update Tcl/Tk, Grass requires a modified version of Tcl/Tk
>>found at:
>>  http://grass.itc.it/grass57/binary/mswindows_cygwin
>>download:
>>  xtcltk-8.3.4-CYGWIN.tar.gz
>>You can use Cygwin setup to un-install any existing Cygwin version of
>>Tcl/Tk, or you can use some other method to hide it. You can issue the
>>command 'which wish' to see which version Grass is finding, or 'which -a
>>wish' to see all versions of wish which are installed. (wish is a
>>component of Tcl/Tk).
>>
>>I have no idea what's with the "cygwinb19.dll", I don't have one on my
>>system.
> 
> 
> If this TCL/TK depends on a 5 years old version of Cygwin, then good
> night, I'm sure that there are more than one ports of recent TCL
> packages to recent Cygwin versions out there in the web, so why should
> one use a beta version which b19 is (that was the beta before beta20).
> We have five years later and Cygwin is at version 1.5, no beta, more
> stable IMO.
> 
> In the document at the website you quopted is stated:
> "Prerequisites:
>   - Cygwin, latest release,"
> 
> No word about b19, I assume the TCL package is broken, ask the maintainer.
> 
> And could you tell me who is this maintainer and what is the difference
> with this TCL package?
> 
> 
> Gerrit
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> Message: 6
> Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 10:37:50 +0200
> From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gp at familiehaase.de>
> Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere
> To: wingrass at grass.itc.it
> CC: Richard Greenwood <rich at greenwoodmap.com>, mperra at petrelrob.com
> Subject: Re: [winGRASS] problem starting grass
> 
> Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> 
> 
>>In the document at the website you quopted is stated:
>>"Prerequisites:
>> - Cygwin, latest release,"
>>
>>No word about b19, I assume the TCL package is broken, ask the maintainer.
> 
> 
> Is it eventually the MySQL client which is requireing cygwinB19?
> 
> You may fetch my MySQL package then which is compiled against recent
> Cygwin DLL:
> http://anfaenger.de/cygwin/cygwin-1.5/mysql/mysql-4.0.17-pc-cygwin-i686-1.ta
> r.bz2
> 
> There is the server included in this huge package, just move mysql.exe
> and the cygmysqlclient-x.dll to a directory in your PATH (e.g.
> /usr/local/bin).
> 
> 
> Gerrit
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